Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World
by Professor Loch K. Johnson
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Author: Professor Loch K. JohnsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-11
ISBN: 0300076541
Number of pages: 282
Publisher: Yale University Press
Summary of Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World
University of Georgia Regents Professor of Political Science Loch K. Johnson draws on historical data, more than 500 interviews, and his own experience working for Congressional committees on intelligence to define the functions of intelligence, espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, and to provide an overview of America's secret operations abroad. 16 illustrations.Johnson, a former assistant to Defense Secretary Les Aspin and now a university professor, defends the U.S. intelligence networks from the charges of ineptitude that have followed embarrassments like the Aldrich Ames case and the rout of the CIA-backed Kurds in Iraq. He argues that the successes of the CIA and the intelligence community far outweigh such setbacks, and that even the failures are often laid at the wrong door: good intelligence has often been ignored by the upper (political) levels of the bureaucracy. He cites the analysis of Gorbachev's perestroika as an example, detailing the fight by the agency's Soviet experts to get the Director to accept that a significant change was underway.
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